Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1887-01-28
In Memoriam,

AT 217 Il street, northwest, in the city of
Washington, ID. c., at the home of her SON
in-law, Alpheus Middleton, Esq, on Satur-
day, the Goth of November, 1856, ELIZA A.
DUvALL fell asleep. The deceased was the
widow of the late DR.. Washington Duvall,
of the county Of Montgomery, we'll known
in both professional and political circles
Miss Perry was born May 10th, 1903, and
was at the time of her departure in the Saith
year Of her age.
The writer of this imperfect obituary re.
members to have heard years age in Mont
gomery county, frem distinguished citizen
of that county, her cotemporary and an oc-
togenarian, that our friend, like her natal
month OF May, was rarely beautiful in per-
son when as girl in the early years of this
century she trod beneath her feet the flowers
which bloomed along the path of her bud
ding womanhood Nor was the testimony
Of the late Bishop of Maryland (the Rt. Rev.
William Pinkney, of blessed memory,) for
many years her pastor, less conclusive as to
those beauties Of mind and heart which
went so far in his judgment to constitute
her the model housewife at dear old Fair
view, where, as wife and mother, mistress of
her servants and kind hostess to her many
guests, she did so much TO make others
hoPPJs Dut ~ Wdo do al uuiuUlt WOIsulp-
per in his country church of st. Marks
then Paint Chapel, that her distinguished
friend and rector loved beth to think and
speak Of her. For be it known that how
ever much both nature and birth did for
her, in and by both of these a sinner, il was
the grace of God which wrought such won
drous change in her as fully to prepare her
in her unclouded days for those trials which
God allowed TO come on her, and her vic
tory through which attests so clearly the
strength of her faith and the divinity of her
religion. &c back to her old neighborhood,
near Colesville, and inquire who was the
model wife, tender mother, kind friend to
rich and poor alike, full of blessings as
neighbor in sickness and in health, in life
and in death, aud the few old persons who
can 90 back so far will tell you that for over
a halt century it pleased God to employ
Mrs. Duvall SO to bear testimony for Him.
Her death points and emphasizes a most
important lesson. 1t tells us that ones life
is the surest index of the mode OF death,
that as one lives, SO ordinarily does he die.
Her faith bore her high above the changes
and chances" of this mortal life, and her
serene, calm life was rounded off in a serene,
calm sleep which men call Death While
living she tried to bless everybody and ev-
erything she touched. When she came to
die God kept her, through the riches aud
mercies of His grace, SO fully surrounded by
blessings that she missed but little, if any
thing, of the comforts of her old home at
Fairview. Quietly and unostentatiously
did she live and calmly did she sink to rest,
sustained by her faith, ministered TO by her
devoted children, among whom none more
kind than he at whose home she died, full
Of years, full of grace, she ceased to be
among us here and went before US rejoicing
for the privilege of waiting for us there
and all this through the grace of God which
is eternal life,
j. b. A.
Rector, Marlborough, Md, Jan. "a, 81.